Villagers

St George’s Church, St George’s Road, Brighton, Friday, February 12

OVER the last five years Conor O’Brien has released three studio albums – two of which earned the Irishman Mercury Music Prize nominations - and been presented with an Ivor Novello award.

This January O’Brien is releasing Where Have You Been All My Life? which sees him consolidate the amazing period of his career by revisiting the best of the songs collected on 2010’s Becoming A Jackal, 2013’s {Awaydays} and this year’s Darling Arithmetic in one flowing narrative.

The 12-track album also includes a cover of Jimmy Webb’s Witchita Lineman and O’Brien’s first studio recording of Memoir the song he originally penned for Charlotte Gainsbourg.

It was recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with Radiohead and Last Shadow Puppets engineer Richard Woodcraft and Villagers live engineer Ber Quinn at the controls.

O’Brien was accompanied by an electro-acoustic band, playing piano, synthesiser, double bass, harp, mellotron, drums and flugelhorn.

To accompany the release he’s heading back on a national tour next year, which takes in the atmospheric but intimate St George’s Church in February.

This year has already seen him invited to play as part of In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited tour across the UK and France and support Paul Weller and John Grant in North America.

Starts 7.30pm, tickets £15 on sale from today. Call 01273 606312.